Mauricio Cárdenas
| Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría | |
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| 69th Minister of Finance and Public Credit | |
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Assumed office 3 September 2012 |
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| President | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Preceded by | Juan Carlos Echeverry |
| 29th Minister of Mines and Energy | |
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In office 26 September 2011 – 3 September 2012 |
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| President | Juan Manuel Santos |
| Preceded by | Carlos Rodado Noriega |
| Succeeded by | Federico Renjifo Vélez |
| Director of the National Planning Department | |
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In office 13 August 1999 – 27 August 2000 |
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| President | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
| Preceded by | Jaime Ruíz Llano |
| Succeeded by | Juan Carlos Echeverry |
| 6th Minister of Transport | |
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In office 7 August 1998 – 13 August 1999 |
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| President | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
| Preceded by | Rodrigo Marín Bernal |
| Succeeded by | Gustavo Canal Mora |
| 4th Minister of Economic Development | |
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In office 17 January 1994 – 7 August 1994 |
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| President | César Gaviria |
| Preceded by | Luis Alberto Moreno |
| Succeeded by | Rodrigo Marín Bernal |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 June 1962 Medellín, Colombia |
| Political party | Conservative Party |
| Spouse(s) | Cristina Fernández Mejía (1998–present) |
| Children | Isabela Andrea |
| Alma mater |
University of the Andes University of California, Berkeley |
| Website | Official website |
Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría (born 9 June 1962) is the 69th and current Minister of Finance and Public Credit and former Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Prior to this, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution. For the Government of Colombia, he has also served as the 4th Minister of Economic Development, the 6th Minister of Transport, and former Director of the National Planning Department, and in the private sector has served as 11th and 9th Director of the Higher Education and Development Foundation (Fedesarrollo), as the 7th President Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), as former President of Titularizadora Colombiana S.A., and as General Manager of Empresa de Energía de Bogotá S.A. ESP.
On 20 September 2011 President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón designated Cárdenas to succeed Juan Carlos Echeverry as Minister of Economy. He was sworn in as the 29th Minister of Mines and Energy on 26 September.
Born to Jorge Cárdenas Gutiérrez, former President of the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, and his wife Cecilia Santamaría Botero on 9 June 1962 in Medellín, Antioquia; the third of four children, his other siblings are: Patricia Eugenia, Jorge Hernán, and Eduardo. On 10 January 1998 he married Cristina Fernández Mejía in a Catholic wedding at the Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Church in Cartagena de Indias; together they have two daughters: Isabella and Andrea.
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